Abigail Author:Malcolm Macdonald She boldly decided to become more than an ornament of Victorian society; As a child of the aristocrat ruling class, beautiful and headstrong Abigail Stevenson should have been a creature of unawakened innocence. Instead she had learned from her personal maid what men and women sought with one another and was determined to experience this forbidd... more »en pleasure on her own terms. An extraordinary man led her to her ultimate fulfillment as an artist, creator and intellectual.« less